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package org.exist.xquery.modules.example;

import org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager;
import org.apache.logging.log4j.Logger;
import org.exist.dom.QName;
import org.exist.xquery.BasicFunction;
import org.exist.xquery.Cardinality;
import org.exist.xquery.FunctionSignature;
import org.exist.xquery.XPathException;
import org.exist.xquery.XQueryContext;
import org.exist.xquery.value.FunctionParameterSequenceType;
import org.exist.xquery.value.FunctionReturnSequenceType;
import org.exist.xquery.value.Sequence;
import org.exist.xquery.value.SequenceIterator;
import org.exist.xquery.value.SequenceType;
import org.exist.xquery.value.StringValue;
import org.exist.xquery.value.Type;
import org.exist.xquery.value.ValueSequence;

/**
 * This is an example module showing how to create a function module.
 * 
 * @author Wolfgang Meier
 * @author Loren Cahlander ([email protected])
 */
public class EchoFunction extends BasicFunction {

    @SuppressWarnings("unused")
	private final static Logger logger = LogManager.getLogger(EchoFunction.class);

    public final static FunctionSignature signature =
		new FunctionSignature(
			new QName("echo", ExampleModule.NAMESPACE_URI, ExampleModule.PREFIX),
			"A useless example function. It just echoes the input parameters.",
			new SequenceType[] { new FunctionParameterSequenceType("text", Type.STRING, Cardinality.ZERO_OR_MORE, "The text to echo")},
			new FunctionReturnSequenceType(Type.STRING, Cardinality.ZERO_OR_MORE, "the echoed text"));

	public EchoFunction(XQueryContext context) {
		super(context, signature);
	}

	public Sequence eval(Sequence[] args, Sequence contextSequence)
		throws XPathException {

		// is argument the empty sequence?
		if (args[0].isEmpty()) {
			return Sequence.EMPTY_SEQUENCE;
		}
		
		// iterate through the argument sequence and echo each item
		ValueSequence result = new ValueSequence();
		for (SequenceIterator i = args[0].iterate(); i.hasNext();) {
			String str = i.nextItem().getStringValue();
			result.add(new StringValue("echo: " + str));
		}
		return result;
	}

}